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Feb 27

Feb 27 Poynter Launches Local-News Newsletter

Newsletter editor Kristen Hare said in the launch announcement that the idea behind Local Edition is to support the essential work that local news does by emphasizing improvements in local products and platforms and keeping on eye on what's ahead for the industry at the community level.

"My goal is to build a conversation week to week and month to month. I hope that together we’ll be able to identify what’s working, what’s not and what has to happen from the bottom up and the top down so that local news can remain both viable and valuable," Hare said in her inaugural post.

The first edition brings in Kavita Kumar of the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Jason Rosenbaum of St. Louis Public Radio to discuss the angst in the industry and why Kumar and Rosenbaum are still journalists anyway.